The world's oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago, scientists said on Thursday.
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In Washington, Oregon, and particularly California, far less snow and rain has fallen this winter than usual and it has many people worried about water supplies further into spring and summer.
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The Prairie State power plant, set amid farm fields and woods in southwestern Illinois, will start producing power soon, beginning a life of burning local coal that's expected to last until at least the 2040s. It is the largest coal-fired power plant built in the United States in the last 30 years.
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Significant declines in perennial Arctic sea ice over the past decade may be intensifying a chemical reaction that leads to deposits of toxic mercury, a NASA-led study showed on Thursday.
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Homegrown air pollution is bad enough, but for years scientists have tracked pollution rising out of Asia, crossing the Pacific Ocean, and descending over the western United States. Now they are able to sort out the imported air pollution from local varieties.
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On substance, the two presidents’ approaches bear many similarities: Both embrace conservation — including, in Obama’s case, a drive for energy-efficient buildings and higher vehicle fuel efficiency standards. Both talk up wind and solar power and both lean heavily on the Energy Department.
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Another part of Australia is being regularly inundated yet the people affected feel like they're being ignored. Climate projections suggest six low-lying islands will only get worse and the people fear that secret plans are being made to abandon the islands.
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